Instead, dollar debasement repels capital and over time, raises prices inflicting a penurious tax on producers.

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He founded the Basle Chamber Orchestra in 1926, when he was a penurious 20-year-old, and with the aid of donations from friends almost immediately started commissioning pieces.

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Only a few generations earlier, their ancestors had been living a desperate, penurious life in the intractable deserts of northern Arabia.

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